Question

With the fast pace of modern life, more and more people are living under great pressure.
Some people are afraid   48 pressure. They think that the stress of work takes joy and happiness away from them. In their view, stress does harm to them   49 physically and mentally. That is   50 they prefer something less competitive to something more challenging.
Others argue that stress isn’t as bad as it is often supposed to be.   51 it is beyond yourself, a certain amount of stress can be of great significance.   52 , without stress it is easy to waste time. Stress gives purpose and meaning to a meaningless and boring life. Most people   53  are under stress finally achieve goals. And they can bring   54 ability into full play.
In my opinion, we shouldn’t escape from stress but face it as it is. What we can do is to adapt to stress rather   55 avoid it.

Answer 1

【小题1】of
【小题2】both
【小题3】why
【小题4】Unless
【小题5】Instead
【小题6】who
【小题7】their
【小题8】than

解析【小题1】考查介词搭配：be afraid of害怕
【小题2】考查词组：both …and…既…又
【小题3】考查表语从句，That’s why…那就是为什么？
【小题4】考查连词：其他人认为压力没有那么糟糕除非超出你的能力：除非：Unless
【小题5】从后面的句子：without stress it is easy to waste time.可知是相反地：Instead
【小题6】考查定语从句：先行词是Most people 用who引导定语从句
【小题7】考查形容词性物主代词：主语是they用 their
【小题8】考查词组：rather than而不是